Ahmed Mansour is an

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, television presenter, television host, and

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Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...

since 1997, and

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. He is one of Al Jazeera's prominent journalists. He presents ''

Bela Hodod ''Bela Hodod'' ( ar, بلا حدود, bi-lā ḥudūd, meaning "without borders"), an Arab live television talk show was from Cairo, which airs on Al Jazeera weekly. It is presented by Ahmed Mansour. The program airs every Wednesday at 22:05 Mec ...

'' (بلا حدود,

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for "without borders"), an Arab live television talk show from

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since 1999, which airs on

Channel weekly. He also presents the program ''Shahed Ala Al-Asr''. In 2009, he published the book ''Inside Fallujah: the Unembedded Story''.

Biography

He was born in the city of

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, in Egypt, and graduated from the Mansoura University, with a bachelor's degree in arts. His career started as a war correspondent. He covered the war in Afghanistan between 1987 and 1990, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1994 and the war in Iraq in 2004. He now leads two talk shows which are broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV: in addition to "Without Frontiers", he also presents the program "Witness on the Age". Both programs are widely viewed in the Arab World. Apart from his skills as interviewer in the programs he conducts, Ahmed Mansour has become famous because of his outspoken political views. Mansour has openly criticized the current al-Sisi government. He has also criticised the Muslim Brotherhood. Mansour was criticized on social media after he interviewed the leader of al-Nusra Front, and a Syrian pilot captive held by the al-Nusra Front. In August 2014, Cairo's criminal court accused Mansour of torturing a lawyer in Tahrir Square in 2011; Mansour denied the charges, and ''Al Jazeera'' said the accusations were false. Mansour was convicted ''in absentia'' in October and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. ''Al Jazeera'' called the ruling unjust, and an effort to silence journalists. Interpol refused to issue a warrant. On 20 June 2015, Mansour was arrested at

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and held by German police at the request of the Egyptian government, provoking demonstrations in Germany until his release. Reporters Without Borders called Mansour's detention "Egypt's terrible revenge against journalists that cross the regime," and stated that Berlin was threatening to put itself "at the service of a dictatorial regime." Mansour was released on 22 June. According to Hans-Eduard Busemann of ''Reuters'', "Mansour's case has put Germany in an awkward position as it tries to balance business interests and human rights."

Books

Mansour has written more than 20 books in

, such as: * Battle of Fallujah: America's Defeat in Iraq ( ar, معركة الفلوجة هزيمة أمريكا في العراق ) * Under Fire in Afghanistan ( ar, تحت وابل النيران في أفغانستان ) * Under Fire in Sarajevo ( ar, تحت وابل النيران في سراييفو ) * Jewish Influence in the US Administration ( ar, النفوذ اليهودي في الإدارة الأميركية ) * The Story of the Fall of Baghdad ( ar, قصة سقوط بغداد )

References

External links

Official website of Ahmed Mansour

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Why did Germany detain Al Jazeera's Ahmed Mansour?
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